5/1/12 Eric Xu Guo successfully defended his dissertation. Abhranil Maiti successfully defended his dissertation. Suvarna Mane successfully defended her thesis.
Congratulations, Dr. E. Guo, Dr. A. Maiti, and S. Mane, M.Sc. !

2/29/12 My talk for the CESCA seminar, Moving PUFs out of the lab, is online. You can download the slides as well.

2/23/12 We've open-sourced our Bluespec Implementation for a secp112r1 ECDLP engine. This design will be presented at SHARCS 2012 in Washington next month.

2/6/12 CESCA has announced its summer course program. Check our course website to learn about the four courses we offer this year. The topics cover hardware security, software assurance, energy harvesting, and hardware/software codesign.

1/6/12 Our PUF research webpage is all new and improved. Learn about the background of PUF
technology, our research contributions, download our measurements database, or perform
interactive queries.

1/6/12 Happy New Year! I made a new release of GEZEL (2.5.11). 64-bit support is now included for Ubuntu Lucid & Oneiric. Last semester, my HW/SW codesign course used GEZEL on the Altera DE2-115 board.

11/30/11 The call for papers of the
2012 Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems is out! The submission deadline is 5 March 2012.

8/18/11 Our SHA-3 chip, with the round-3 candidates, is operational. Even better, you can get yours for free. The chip is pin-compatible with the ASIC socket on a SASEBO-R board.

8/1/11 Secure Embedded Systems Virginia Tech has several open research positions, both at the graduate level as well as at the undergrauate level.

7/12/11 We've released a new set of FPGA variability measurements. We now have data for 193 FPGA's available for download.

6/17/11 Zhimin Chen successfully passed his final examination and becomes the first PhD graduate from the Secure Embedded Systems group!

2/17/11 I did a talk on "Specialized Cryptanalytic Machines: Two examples, sixty years apart". Our CESCA Video Team recorded it and put the talk online. The slides are online as well.